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Reducing my digital footprint | |
2018.01.23 21:56:59 CET | |
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One of my goals for 2018 is to reduce my digital footprint. My wife | |
has always told me I have too much stuff, but I just dismissed her | |
comments because I had an use - or an excuse - for each device. This | |
year I decided to simplify my life on many different aspects, | |
including my digital footprint. | |
These are the devices I had running: | |
* Dell T3500 workstation, running OpenBSD and used mostly as a | |
backup storage machine (24TB of disks). | |
* Self-built desktop, running FreeBSD and used mostly as my remote | |
workstation (I did my coding, building, testing etc. on it). | |
Another 48TB of disks. | |
* Two raspberry pi's 2B, used as a Tor relay server and IPFS host. | |
* One Synology DS415+ (16TB) serving media. | |
* One Synology DS415+ (8TB) as a TimeMachine and rsync server. | |
* One FreeNAS Mini (24TB) running different jails and applications, | |
mostly my personal cloud server. | |
* One MacBook Pro which was my portable machine, until I switched | |
for: | |
* An iPad Pro, used almost exclusively as an SSH client. | |
* A few other VPS running Tor relays and other services. | |
It's pretty obvious there are too many devices on that list, so I'm | |
working on shutting down unnecessary devices. My plan is to drop down | |
to: | |
* FreeNAS Mini for backup, TimeMachine and rsync server. | |
* One Synology DS415+ for media. | |
* MBP for coding and project work. | |
* The two raspberry pi's will continue running. | |
I've already canceled the extra VPS'es. The iPad has already been | |
taken over by my kids. I'll shutdown the extra Synology NAS and both | |
larger machines - after a couple of months I'll either keep them for | |
spare parts, sell or donate them. |